Laine Hills
| Laine Hills | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| part of | Dyer Plateaus | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 45 ′ S , 64 ° 24 ′ W | |
The Laine Hills are a group of four mostly snowy hills in Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . They rise 26 km northwest of the Welch Mountains on the Dyer Plateau .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them in 1974. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1976 after Daren Lester Laine (* 1951), a biologist for the United States Antarctic Research Program at Palmer Station in 1975.
Web links
- Laine Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Laine Hills on geographic.org (English)